An elderly woman has plead guilty to a felony count of obstruction of justice, which she did to protect her grandson, reports HereCast.
Lise Soucy, 66, of Chester, VT admitted to trying to influence a witness in a criminal case against her grandson. Soucy had no previous criminal record. While her grandson, Ryan Stocker, was on trail for sexually assaulting two, at the time, teenage classmates, Soucy attempted to act as a mediator between her grandson, a close friend, and at least one of the teenage girls to she would drop the charges. Her defense attorney stated Wednesday that his client had been under “stress and pressure that made her do something that she now knows is wrong.”
Soucy submitted this plea Wednesday in court in exchange for a one-year probationary sentence, where if she stays out of criminal trouble, her conviction will be thrown out and no sentence will be handed down.
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